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Democratic Hispanic Caucus, Miami-Dade Chapter
stated on January 16, 2014:
In 2011, Carlos López-Cantera “staunchly supported” a Florida bill modeled after Arizona’s immigration law
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 21, 2014
Jorge Ramos
stated on December 5, 2013 in a broadcast of the "Daily Show":
“The most popular name is no longer John or Steven. It’s Jose, Camilo and Maria.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 9, 2013
Al Sharpton
stated on December 4, 2013 in a broadcast of MSNBC's Politics Nation:
The “priorities” of more than three-quarters of Americans are to increase the minimum wage, create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and require background checks for gun buyers.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 6, 2013
Obama's heckler
stated on November 25, 2013 in comments during the president's speech:
President Barack Obama has the “power to stop deportation for all undocumented immigrants in this country.”
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 26, 2013
Janet Napolitano
stated on August 27, 2013 in a speech at the National Press Club:
The 2010 DREAM Act failed despite “strong bipartisan support.”
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2013
Marco Rubio
stated on August 13, 2013 in a radio interview:
Says President Barack Obama could “basically” legalize all immigrants here illegally “by the sign of a pen.”
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • August 22, 2013
Federation for American Immigration Reform
stated on August 5, 2013 in a news release:
“Unemployment has been on the rise throughout Wisconsin” as Paul Ryan stepped up his advocacy of “immigration increases.”
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 9, 2013
Dan Patrick
stated on June 27, 2013 in a campaign video:
Says the 2014-15 state budget “cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs.”
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • August 2, 2013
Ted Cruz
stated on June 24, 2013 in an interview with Fox News:
The Senate immigration bill “has immediate legalization … and the border security is sometime in the future, and just like in 1986, it’s designed never to come into being.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 27, 2013
Michael McCaul
stated on June 5, 2013 in U.S. House floor debate.:
Says the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to “release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities.”
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2013
Dana Rohrabacher
stated on June 16, 2013 in an interview on WND Radio:
On immigration reform, Marco Rubio “all along has been saying, ‘We have to have border security first’ ” and then “he gets on Spanish TV, he ends up saying, ‘No, no. That will never get in the way.’ “
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • June 20, 2013
Oregon Republican Party
stated on May 29, 2013 in in a press release:
Says a group “estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion.”
Mostly False
By Janie Har • June 15, 2013
Greg Walden
stated on April 18, 2013 in a radio interview:
Says “we allow more people into America legally than all other countries on the planet combined.”
Mostly False
By Ian K. Kullgren • May 24, 2013
Dustin Inman Society
stated on April 15, 2013 in a billboard advertisement:
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina “has a labor shortage and wants more immigration.”
Mostly False
By Janel Davis • May 3, 2013
Wayne LaPierre
stated on February 13, 2013 in an op-ed for the Daily Caller:
“The president flagrantly defies the 2006 federal law ordering the construction of a secure border fence along the entire Mexican border.”
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • February 20, 2013
Marco Rubio
stated on January 30, 2013 in a blog post on RedState.com:
“Agriculture has always required a significant workforce from abroad.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2013
Marco Rubio
stated on January 30, 2013 in a blog post on RedState.com:
The United States does “not have a system through which growers and dairies can bring a workforce legally into the U.S.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 18, 2013
Texas Federation of Republican Women
stated on January 17, 2013 in an approved resolution.:
Says that 9 million to 50 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 1, 2013
Rush Limbaugh
stated on January 29, 2013 in a radio interview:
Research shows that “a vast majority of arriving immigrants today come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity, and that’s what they support.”
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • January 31, 2013
Facebook posts
stated on June 19, 2012 in on the Internet:
“Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops, but 41 percent are on welfare.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2012
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